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BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

No. 333,524. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE. No. 383,524. I Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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JAMES HUNT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA., ASSIGNOR TO THE UNITED STATES EXHAUST, FILLING AND OARBONATING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-FlLLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,524, dated January 5,1886.

Application filed October 25, 1884. Serial No. 146,439. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES HUNT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-FillingDevices, of which the following is a specification, ref erence being had therein to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a broken sectional elevation of a bottle or receptacle filling apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is adetail section of a single controlling-valve and plunger device for the filling apparatus. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal vertical section of plunger device. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the plug forthe single controlling valve. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of the upper part of the bottle or receptacle support or stand, and Fig. 6 is an end view drawn to an enlarged scale, showing the single controlling-valve and mechanism attached to its plug-stem for operating the compression-valve in the outlet-pipe of the gasometer.

My invention has relation to the apparatus for filling beer, liquids, or other material into bottles or receptacles shown and described in United States Letters Patent dated January 9,

'1883, and July 8, 1884, and numbered, re

spectively, 270,434. and'301,598; and it has for its object to effect the various operations incident to said apparatus, or to open and cut ofi' the successive communications between the vacuum-chamber or exhausting devices, filling- 5 tank, gasometer, and receptacle or bottle to be filled by a single controlling-valve, whereby the filling operation is more easily, rapidly,

and economically effected.

My invention accordingly consists of the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts comprisinga filling apparatus, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the vacuumchamber, E the liquid or other supply tank, and F the gasometer. The vacuum-chamber A has pipe-connection a with a suction or ex haust pump or device, B, and pipe at is provided with a gage, a, which communicates with chamber A, and a petcock, a for opening the latter to the external air when the vacuum therein is to be broken. Chamber A is also provided with a drip or outlet cock, a and a pipe-connection, a, which preferably leads into said chamber at or near its middle line, as shown. The outlet-pipe e for supplytank E is preferably furnished with a cock, 6, and the pipe-connection f for gasometer F has a compression-cock, 1. These pipes e, and f respectively lead to separate'inletports 0, c, and c of the shell 0 of a single controlling-valve, D, which shell has preferably a tapering bore, into which fits a correspondingly-shaped plug, D, having diametrical or transverse ways or channels d, (1 and (1 The shell or casing C has outlet-ports 0 c, and c' in one of its lower sides, 0*, which lead into a common chamber, 0, having a single outlet-opening, O". The plugways d, d", and d are in line with an inlet and an outlet port of shell 0. Said ways are, however, located in different planes or separated from each other, and are diametrically arranged in advance of one another, as more plainly shown in Figs. 2 and 4, so that a rotation of plug D will cause its ways to successively register and move out of registration with their respective inlet and outlet ports in shell 0. The inletports of any of the plugways do not therefore communicate with each other.

The plug D is adjustably maintained in shell Oby means of a screw-nut, d, and a disk or collar, 0 which forms part or one end of shell 0. Said collar is loosely mounted on plug-stem (1*, so as not to rotate therewith, and its periphery is marked or indented at suitable intervals around it, as indicated at d'. These indentations are provided and act in conjunction with pointers, hereinafter described, to indicate the successive registration of the various plugways with their respective ports during a rotation of plug D, whereby the proper time for successively stopping the movement of said plug to effect the operations of exhausting, filling, and charging is positively and definitely determined.

Upon plug-stem d are secured radial arms h, having circumferential cams or fingers h, which are in line with and act to raise the stem f and open cock f during a rotation of plug D.

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5 d and indicate the successive registrations of the plugways .with their ports, as above set forth. The arms h are so arranged that when one ofthem raises the stem f and opens cock f the way (1 of plug D is then in register with its ports 0 and c and a free communication is made between the gasometer F and outlet-chamber O of valve D.

Any suitable form of turning wheel or lever h may be employed for plug D,and which may be either manually or mechanically operated,

preferably the former. The valve D is suitably supported upon standards '6 i, secured to a table or stand, I. 1

To the outlet-opening G of chamber 0 of o valve D is affixed a pipe, G, having an enlargement or chamber, G, which has an open end, 9, closed by a screw-plug, 9, through which passes a shaft, 9, the outer end of which is suitably sealed by a st'uifing-box, g and has 5 an operating handle or lever, g.

Upon the inner end of shaft 9 is secured an eccentric, it, upon which is mounted a plunger, K. The latter is located in the bore of the lower end, 9 of pipe G, and preferably pro- 0 jects beyond the same, as shown, said plunger and operating mechanism being more plainly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. The diameter of the plunger is preferably less than that of the bore of pipe G,to provide a space between said 5 parts for the passage of liquid or other material from pipe G' to the receptacle tolbe filled.

Said space may, however, be otherwise provided for as desired.

To the table I, and in line with the plunger 3 K,is affixed a movable platform, L, upon which is placed the bottle or receptacle to be filled, and it has at its top edge, upon one side of the same, an upwardly-projecting lip, Z, against which the bottle is pushed when placed upon 5 the platform, so as to keep said bottle in due alignment with the end 9 of pipe G, to assure the entrance of the lower end of the plunger into the opening of thebottle-stopper for depressing and opening thevalve therein. 3 p The plunger K is used only when the bottles or receptacles have valve -stoppers or when the bottles are filled through the stoppers, as set forth in the aforesaid patents. When, however, such stoppers are not employed, then the plunger K is dispensed with, and in this case the pipe G is devoid of chamber G, and its end 9 leads into or is 'otherwise directed to the bottle to fill the same.

" The platform L is raised by foot-pressure 3 applied to a treadle, Z, and is provided with a reacting spring, I, for returning it to its normal position.

The guides Z for the platform L may be connected to table I in any suitable manner; but

5 I prefer to utilize the standards 42 for that purpose, as shown.

The operation is substantially as follows: A

tle-stopper seats itself against the edge 9 of V pipe G and forms an air-tight joint therewith. The plunger K is now depressed to open the valve in the bottle-stopper and open communication between the bottle and chamber 0 of valve D. The plug D of the latter is then given its first movement or partial rotation, which causes the way d to register with ports 0 and c and opens said valve and bottle to vacuum-chamber A, and a vacuum is almost instantly formed .in the bottle. A further turn of plug D closes way d and opens way (F, or makes it register with ports 0 and c, whereupon the liquid in pipe 0 flows into and through valve D, and thence into and fills the A still further movement of plug D plug D is then in its normal or closing position for all its ways. Pressure on treadle l is then removed, whereupon the spring Preacts to lower platform L, to permit the filled bottle to be withdrawn therefrom. As this is done the stopper-valve closes and seals the bottle. The surplus liquid remaining in chamber 0 after a bottle is filled is drawn or sucked out of the same when the next bottle is exhausted.

Such surplus liquid collects in vacuum-cham- 1 her A, and is from time to time drawn out thereof by opening cock a'. To prevent such surplus interfering with the operation of exhausting the bottle, and also to avoid access of such liquid to pump B, the pipe a is connected to the chamber A at or near its horizontal middle and the pipe a at the top of same, as shown. v 7

It is evident from the foregoing that the filling operation is easily and expeditiously performed, and the contents of the receptacle in like manner carbonized or charged without exposing the same to the natural atmosphere, and that all kinds of manufactured or carbonized liquids or waters, milk, beer, juices of of valve D in relation to vacuum-chamber A,

tank E, and gasometer F. -N either do I confine myself to a single controlling-valve having three ways and series of ports, as additional ways and ports may be formed therein when sirup or other material is to be introduced into a filled receptacle, nor to the use of a vacuum-chamber and exhausting devices, nor to the use of the charging-reservoir F, as either or both of them may be dispensed with, if desired.

What I claim is 1. In a filling device, the combination of a liquid-supply tank, a gasometer, separate outlet-pipes for said tank and gasometer, and a single controlling-valve for said pipes, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of a liquid-supply tank, a gasometer, and an exhaust device, each having separate pipe-connection with a single controlling-valve, substantially as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a filling device, the combination of a vacuum-chamber having exhausting mechanism, a supply-tank, and separate outlet-pipes for said chamber and tank, leading to a single eontrolling-valve,D, constructed and arranged for operation substantially as shown and described.

4. In a filling device, the combination of a vacuum-chamber having an exhaust device, a 25 supply-tank, a gasometer. and separateoutlet-pipes for said parts, leading to a single controlling-valve which successively opens and closes said pipes, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a filling device, the combination of a gasometer having pipe-connection f, provided with compression-valve f, and the single controlling-valve D, having arms h, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination of a series of separate pipes, one of which has a compression-cock, and all leading to a single controlling-valve having armsh on its stem for opening said compression-cock, substantially as shown and 40 described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES HUNT.

Witnesses:

S. J. VAN STAVOREN, CHAS. F. VAN HORN. 

